readelf -S and long section name
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Tue Jul 29 14:16:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:09:19PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>
> >> > Perhaps test for > n chars and if so, wrap after the section name,
> >> > like
> >> >
> >> > [11] .text PROGBITS 00015a80 015a80 0f9e34 00 AX 0 0 16
> >> > [12] some_really_big_section_name_probably_from_c++_name_mangling
> >> > PROGBITS 0010f8c0 10f8c0 00086a 00 AX 0 0 16
> >> >
> >> > With --wide, n probably should be increased too.
> >>
> >> I rather like this idea. HJ, Jakub - what do you think ?
> >
> > As long as there's a mode in which it doesn't do this. The readelf -S
> > output is historically very easy to parse from the command line and I
> > have a whole bunch of very dumb shellscripts somewhere which do that.
> > Splitting the output inconsistently means you have to use a more
> > sophisticated parser than just grep.
>
> Ok - so maybe this behaviour should only be triggered with --wide ?
> In which case maybe a more explanatory alias for --wide is needed,
> something like --no-clip-output ?
Or perhaps it should do this by default, and scripts can parse --wide
instead? That makes sense to me also.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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